SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern Details You Might Want to Know

SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern:

The Securities and Exchange Board of India, popularly referred to as SEBI conducts recruitment drive to recruit eligible candidates for various posts within the organization. SEBI has released a notification regarding the recruitment of Grade A officers in various categories. These include IT, General, Official language, Legal, Research, and Civil and Electrical engineering. The SEBI Grade A exam pattern will help candidates prepare meticulously for the exam.

Date of start of registration of application: 7^th March 2020

Last date to submit completed application: 31^st May 2020

Mode of application: Online

Date of phase 1 exam: 4^th July 2020

Date of phase 2 exam: 23^rd August 2020

The SEBI Grade A exam is conducted in 3 phases. these include the following:

• Phase 1: Online preliminary exam
• Phase 2: Online main exam
• Phase 3: Interview

SEBI Grade A Phase 1 exam pattern:

• The SEBI grade A exam is a computer based online examination.
• The exam consists of multiple choice objective questions.
• The exam will consist of 2 papers.
• The total duration of the exam is 2 hours/ 120 minutes.
• The total weightage of the exam is 200 marks.
• The marking scheme is as follows:
• Correct answer: +1 marks.
• Incorrect answer: -1/4^th marks will be deducted.
• A sectional cutoff for paper 1 will be decided by SEBI.

Paper	Stream	Maximum Marks	Duration	Cut Off
Paper 1	All Streams: General Awareness (Financial Sector) English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Test of Reasoning.	100	60 minutes	30%
Paper 2	General Stream: Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act and Economics.	100	40 minutes	40%
Legal, Information Technology, Engineering Stream (Civil & Electrical), Official Language stream	100	40 minutes	40%
Research Stream: Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance and Commerce.
Aggregate Cut off	40 %

SEBI Grade A phase 2 exam pattern:

• The phase 2 exam is a computer based online examination.
• The exam consists of multiple choice objective questions and descriptive questions.
• The exam consists of 3 papers.
• The total duration of the exam is 2 ½ hours/ 150 minutes.
• The total weightage of the exam is 300 marks.
• The marking scheme is as follows:
• Correct answer: +1 marks
• Incorrect answer: -1/4^th marks will be deducted.

Paper	Stream	Maximum Marks	Duration	Cut Off	Weightage
Paper 1	All streams: English (Descriptive Test)	100	60 minutes	30%	1/3rd
Paper 2	General Stream: Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act and Economics.	100	40 minutes	40%	2/3rd
Legal, Engineering Stream (Civil & Electrical) and Official Language stream	100	40 minutes	40%	2/3rd
Research Stream: Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance and Commerce.
Aggregate Cut off	40 %

SEBI grade A Phase 2 exam pattern:

• The phase 3 is a personal interview.
• Phase 2 exam will carry a weightage of 85% while the interview will carry a weightage of 15%.

For any further details regarding SEBI Grade A Exam pattern check the website at www.sebi.gov.in .